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Heyo, so I decided that, I should play Shadow of the Colossus

(After failing to continue playing Ico)

And I have some thoughts

(That I need to rant about because idk anyone else in my circle that's played it.)

I'm 7 Colossai in, and....honestly the games really good.

I adore the designs so far, the world I genuinely have fun traversing, and just the atmosphere as a whole I really really love.

However I need to moan about somethings.

The controls I actually really love....outside Colossai combat.

The loose nature of it I really love.

But my god it's not fun to fight on Collosai, I really did not have fun with some fights

(Minotaur my beloved)

The way it feels like there's no control whatsoever sometimes sucks.

And thing is, I get why it's like that, I get the point of the controls, but the way Wanda stumbles or whole turns will go where I'll just fall off suck

(Probably a skill issue for most of it)

As well sometimes (and this is more of a skill issue)

It's hard to.solved the puzzles of the Collosai, I've had to use some walkthroughs because I can't figure out what it wants of me

(Although with the 3rd Collosai, I wanted to check to make sure I was on the right patch of thinking, funnily enough I figured it out...right as it killed me)(And for the 7th Colossai, my dumbass missed the clue of it)

But yea, it's a really good game, but man the controls (for fighting Colossai) just kick my teeth in

(Also I swear sometimes it just lets go of you for the funnsies of it)

(this is mainly a rant because I need to talk somewhere about this)

I've been reading Kakeguri for the past week now, taking my time.

And after finishing The Tower of Doors arc, I think Kakeguri might be in my top 5th favorite manga spot.

Like I'm still really early on, but I'm adoring it.

The characters are really fun, and the games themselves I adore.

(I used to play Cards with me mum growing up, so I have a major attachment to gambling kinda things)(That and I adore the aesthetics of a Casino to bits)

The arcs have been phenomenal, the back to back games against Yimemi, Kaede and Sayaka have been some of the most engaging games I've ever read.

And as well I find Yumeko fascinating as a "protagonist"

Her obsession with gambling for the sake of it leads to sole fascinating sections.

(Mainly the Indian Poker game and the entire duel against Kaede.)

And honestly, I sucks to have like 0 people to talk to it about. My partner and friends don't like it and just label it the "gooner anime"

Which....I can't entirely defend because....like I get it.

But I'll defend it somewhat*, mainly for the gambling aspect.

Mainly because like characters like Yumeko and Midiari are so absurd in the whole "getting turned on" for a game of cards, it wraps around to being extremely funny with the over the topness. (Still weird, like it gets to a point of like "woaw bucko". Although it's not bad in the manga, which makes me wonder how bad it is in the anime)

(([*] it's still like.....dude wtf it's weird. Like I'm not defending that, because yea it's icky and weird))

Also random ranking of the game arcs so far.

(There's a name for the arcs, but I'm going with just the games itself)

1. Choice Poker + Tower of Doors

2. Indian Poker

3. ESP

4. The Gameshow one (idr the name)

5. Card Rock Paper Scissors

6. The Memory Matching one

7. The one against the cultural president

(I'm probably forgetting one)

Anyho, apologies for the rambling, Kakegurui is really good.

And love how the Tower of Doors arcs ends with a lesbian confession, we stan 🫡

And honestly is very safely goin on my 5th spot for favourite manga so far.

In the top 5 next to H×H and JoJo

Heyo

So I'm 11 Chapters into Kakeguri and I'm adoring it.

And I've just learned there's a prequel focusing on Mary.

And I was wondering if I should wait until I catch up

(Which I did not know it was still ongoing, but heyo)

Or if there was a thematically appropriate time to switch from Kakeguri to Kakeguri Twin?

Thank ye :›

I recently beat Links Awakening and really loved it.

Although my only complaint was the first few dungeons (up until the Face Shrine)

Are relatively easy.

And I found the bosses very underwhelming

(Mainly nightmare)

Although thr dialogue after each bosses defeat it's extremely good

(Like god the story is peak)

What do y'all think of the Dungeons and Bosses of LA

What's a truly unpopular opinion you have on JoJos.

Like one that you know is unpopular.

My unpopular is that I love some of the English stand names.

Some of my favourites being:

Reverb Acts 1-3

Shining Diamond

Emperor Crimson

Lil Bomber

Maiden Heaven

So, yea.

I've had this book for about 2 years now.

And after finally reading it......ohhh I'm kicking myself majorly in the backside.

I really adored this Short story collection.

Anyway here's my thoughts on the stories.

Flames of Prometheus (8/10):

I really liked this one, seeing what happened to P-33 was extremely good.

And it becoming a massive ball of a hive mind I really liked.

YoRHa—VER. 1.05 (10/10):

It's really funny how long this story is compared to the other short stories. But I ain't complaining.

When I did a quick check and seeing that it was long, genuinely made me so happy.

I loved this story, actually seeing the Pearl Harbour descent was extremely good. And depressing Jesus Christ it hurt so so much.

I love all the No. And God the ending hurt.

Phenomenal

Memory Cage (7/10):

I liked it, not phenomenal, but still really enjoyed it. Although this is mainly set up for Memory Thorn.

Orbital Bunker Observation Diary (9/10):

This was extremely good. I love seeing more of this world and seeing all the Orbital Bunker crew is always a treat.

(I'm so happy to get 6O and 21O interactions. I adore the Operators)

((And the red girl foreshadowing was really good))

Small Flowers (7.5/10):

Short and sweet story, and idk about y'all but it made me tear up a bit)

A Much to Silent Sea (100/10):

So I already knew about the twist, that it was the moon and not the sea.

But what I wasn't expecting was how much I would ***adore*** 10H. I really loved her so much (she's so me frfr)

And oh my god that ending hurt, like her getting her memory erased like god damn.

Phenomenal and easily my favorite from this.

Memory Thorn (10/10):

God this was phenomenal and emotionally depressing.

Recollections of Emil (10/10):

So this is where I admit that I didn't fully finish all of Emils story like in the game.

(I've finished the Lunar Tear stuff, but I haven't done the rest...yet. I plan to.)

God I love Emil so much, like my poor boi suffered so so much. He needs a Curly Wurly and a hug damnit.

Also, yea I teared up heavily at the ending..it's so peak.

But yea, phenomenal book.

I really need to read more of DrakeNiers Novellas

This is more of a question than anything.

I'm trying to replay Replicant, and I'm having a small bit of a difficult time.

Mainly feeling slightly impatient.

Replicant is tied with Automata as my favorite game of all time but I'm struggling replaying it.

So I'm curious if anyone else has had this problem, or if it's a le skill issue on my part

(It also might be the fact that, I know I'm going to have to do a lot of tedious tasks throughout)

What's the point

It's been 6 days since finishing Solstice

And I haven't stopped thinking about this damned game.

Before I don't think I could ever say I had a game that truly has a life changing effect on me.

(Closest would be the DrakeNieR series, but it isn't anything close to this.)

Where here, feel like there's a new life split.

The more I think the more and more I adore this game.

It genuinely is my favourite story in all of fiction (next to NieR Replicant).

And it honestly hurts that I can't replay it, like I could, it's possible. But without Niko it just doesn't feel right.

Niko feels so much like a son* to me, like yea Niko is just a collection of pixels on a laptop, but those pixels feel so close to me ya know).

And every time I see art I get a lil sad, but still happy ya know

Idk I'm just rambling, but it's just been on my mind alot.

(*Also, the only reason I'm calling Niko son, is solely (and I do mean solely) because of a video called "Fontaine" and the way he says "*son*" just infected my mind)

Heyo,

So I've been playing through Solstice, and I'm a bit confused.

I think I got the gist of it, but essentially want clarification.

The World Machine was made by the author as another world to hop into (essentially) once their world died.

But it needed a person to help run it, so the author used itself

It was curious and messed around, and things went sideways quickly.

Niko was brought in to help because npcs are bones if they touch the squares.

And the world we're running is a simulation, that can only run since we have to opened

I'm pretty sure that's it

(In terms of the machine world itself)

I've probably missed something so that's why I'm asking